Contemplating calling the guards, advice please!

cbreeze

Tisserand wrote: »

OP, what time does your flatmate go to bed at? When he goes to bed, how about you getting up and watch the tv, blaring. Try it for a few nights and see how he likes it.

Had neighbours like this (teachers!!) who made a lot of noise at the weekends - after one wild night put all the radios, stereos in the house next to the party (!!) wall the following morning early on full blast and went shopping. No more noise.

But the OPs situation seems that he/she rents a room in a private house - is the landlord registered with the tenancy board? holding back the rent maybe something he/she will understand. The people the flatmate calls are obviously in a time zone where he has to call them at these hours.

I Hate Systems

I've the same problem right now, my housemates a borderline alcoholic, stumbling in home at 2 o'clock in the morning 3 nights of the weekdays. She likes to (literally) scream, bang the walls, cry on her phone, sing. I put up with it the first couple of weeks, then I just started banging on the walls - prompting her to bang back. So I cried some, and bought a box of wax earplugs (fiver from Boots for about 10 quid). I still hear her from time to time, she woke me up last night, but its a temporary something. I understand how frustrating disrespectful arseholes Skyping at stupid times in the morning is, and although I have no good advice, I just wanna tell you that youre not alone in this.

hearny

Agree with other posters ask him to keep it down, if he uses his phone as a modem ask him politely to use another part of the house, If he says no then get the speakers at the wall with loud music so he cant have a proper call.

Repeat any night he tries the late night loud skyping.

If you are not happy about that record the noise levels in the room when he is at it. Play it for the landlord ask him for either your deposit back, the tennant thrown out or moved to another part of the house. If the landlord refuses tell him you will play the recording for anyone looking at moving in to one of the other rooms. Putting off potential tenants may spur him into action.

Sparticle

If you have a spiteful streak like myself this is a good opportunity for some justified dickery.

You probably have a fuse box. When he starts doing his thing pull down his room specific trip switch or lacking that the general use circuit's trip switch. Most people don't seem to know how to reverse this for some reason. Should he have a laptop this will put a time limit on skype calls and if he has a desktop it's instant sleep.

Alternatively you could invest a pair of high quality speakers and when he starts doing his thing play this on max volume. Buy some earplugs if you do this as it may drive you to suicide.

ewan whose army

When i had similar problems with a next door neighbour during my undergrad. I got my best friend (who is a girl) and we started jumping on the bed, making really obvious and wierd sex noises, and just took the piss (we were both hammered) this went on for about 1 hour, we never heard a peep again lol

UrbanSea

There is only one real solution to this.


Anthrax.

ewan whose army

RichieLawlessness wrote: »

There is only one real solution to this.


Anthrax.

Well that would shut him up!!! But I can't see the Guards taking it the same way